The Team

We are so grateful for all of the support from our film team, our Executive and Associate Producers, the community of scientists in the film and the hundreds of people that came together to bring the unknown story of our reefs to the surface

Motion Graphics Designers

Animation Intern

Digital Imaging Technician

Additional Title Animation

Original Song

“Wake Up”
By Dan Romer and Terry GeigerProduced by
Dan RomerAdditional Production by
Saul Simon MacWilliams and Mike Tuccillo

Additional Music

Mark Crawford

Additional Engineering

David Boman

Additional Percussion

Adam Christgau

Preliminary Sound Design

Dave Wruck

Post Production Supervisor

Stacey Piculell

Post Productions Services By

FINAL FRAME

Colorist

Will Cox

Online Editor

Drew Kilgore

Online Producer

Caitlin Tartaro

Technical Consulting

Sandy Patch
Charlie Rokosny

Additional Graphics

Ben Kiviat

Post Production Sound Services By

Skywalker Sound
A Lucasfilm LTD. Company
Marin County, California

Sound Designer

Dustin Cawood

Re-recording Mixer

Pete Horner

Assistant Re-Recording Mixer

Liz Marston

Engineering Services

Scott Levine

Digital Editorial Support

David Peifer

Audio/Video Transfer

Marco Alicea

Post Production Sound Accounting

Jessica Engel

Client Services

Malcolm Gibson

Scheduling

Carrie Perry

Skywalker Sound Executive Staff

General Manager
Josh Lowden

Head of Production

Jon Null

Head of Engineering

Steve Morris

Special Thanks

Tom Myers
Eva Porter
Malcolm Gibson
Erika Salazar

Jeff Orlowski

Producer & Director

Jeff Orlowski is an Emmy-winning filmmaker and founder of Exposure Labs. His latest project, Chasing Coral, is a feature film following a team of adventurers trying to reveal how the oceans are changing. It will premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, along with a virtual reality piece in the New Frontier lineup. This work continues the momentum of Chasing Ice, for which Orlowski also served as director, producer, and cinematographer. After premiering at Sundance, it received an Academy Award® nomination and won an Emmy® award for Outstanding Nature Programming. In 2016, Orlowski was named the inaugural Sundance Discovery Impact Fellow for environmental filmmaking. To maximize the impact of

To maximize the impact of the film, Orlowski founded Exposure Labs, a company dedicated to both quality storytelling and powerful campaigns. For their work on Chasing Ice, Exposure Labs won the 2016 BritDoc Impact Award recognizing “documentaries that have made the biggest impact on society.” The team is currently developing the impact campaign for Chasing Coral.

Larissa Rhodes

Producer

Larissa Rhodes is a film producer and the Director of Creative Development at Exposure Labs, where she develops projects motivated by social impact. Most recently, she produced Chasing Coral, a feature film following a team of adventurers trying to reveal how the oceans
are changing. It will premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, along with a VR film. Rhodes previously worked on the Emmy® Award-winning documentary, Chasing Ice. She holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University and a BFA & BA from the University of Colorado in Film Studies and International Spanish for the Professions.

Stacey Piculell

Co-Producer

Stacey Piculell is an independent producer specializing in content production for courageous and evocative projects. Her latest work includes Jeff Orlowski’s documentary, CHASING CORAL, premiering at Sundance Film Festival in 2017.

For over a decade, Stacey has worked in partnership with creative editors and bourgeoning documentary filmmakers on a range of projects and award-winning independent films, including FRAME BY FRAME (SXSW, HotDocs, BFI London, 2015) and Sender Film’s VALLEY UPRISING (2014). Stacey has also produced a vast number of nationally broadcast TV commercials, and earned a Masters degree in Film Studies from New York University.

David and Linda Cornfield

Executive Producers

David and Linda Cornfield are philanthropists and environmentalists who believe in the power of images and storytelling to spark curiosity and foster understanding. After careers in the tech industry, they concentrated their philanthropy on education and environmental conservation, focusing on pragmatic, sustainable approaches for better stewardship of the environment.

As lifelong film fans, they became involved with Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral to help audiences connect with environmental issues and advance action on climate policy.

Shari Sant Plummer

Daniel Plummer

Shannon O’Leary Joy

Donna Gruneich

Associate Producer

Donna Gruneich is an investor and philanthropist focusing primarily on funding films that promote social change and the arts in general. Areas of interest include protecting the environment, women and girls issues, education, healthcare and social justice.

Individual film producing credits include Chasing Coral, Bad Kids, House of Z, House of Tomorrow, Night Comes On, and Oscar nominated Cartel Land. Donna and her husband, Kevin, are also members of Impact Partners which brings together philanthropists and filmmakers so that, together, they can create films that entertain audiences, enrich lives, and ignite lasting social change. Through IP, Donna has supported more than 30 films including Audrie and Daisy, Bend the Arc, Icarius, Dina, The Eagle Huntress, The Hunting Ground, Meet the Patels, The Reagan Years, and Unrest, along with Oscar nominated How to Survive a Plague and Oscar winners The Cove and Freeheld.

Donna is passionate about education and the arts. She is the past Chairman of the Board at Park City Academy and is a founding trustee of the Park City Day School Board. The bulk of her work on both boards centered on long-term sustainability, strategic planning, finance and governance. She is a past board member of the Park City Institute, current board member of Voterise, and is an Emeritus member and past Chairman of the Sundance Institute’s Utah Advisory Board.

Kevin Gruneich

Associate Producer

Kevin Gruneigh is an investor and philanthropist. Before retiring in 2004, he worked eight years as Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of the Global Media Research Team, and Senior Publishing/Information Analyst at The Bear Stearns Companies. Prior to that, he worked 14 years at CS First Boston as Managing Director and Senior Publishing/Information Analyst. During his career, Kevin was named to Institutional Investor Magazine’s All-America Research Team for 20 consecutive years, and in many of those years was ranked number one in his sector. Euromoney magazine named him among the top publishing analysts in the world. He has served as Chairman of the Media and Entertainment Analysts of New York and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He has extensive experience in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and private equity.

Kevin is a Senior Advisor to Methuselah Advisors, a boutique media investment bank in New York. He serves on the Advisory Board of Salt Lake City-based Spy Hop Productions, one of the country’s leading youth arts organizations, focused on film, music, radio, and digital design. Along with his wife Donna, Kevin is one of the early members of Impact Partners, dedicated to funding social impact documentaries.

Kevin is also a member of the Board of Directors of The University of Iowa Foundation (and its Investment Committee). He is very active at The University of Iowa, underwriting The Iowa Edge, an orientation program aimed at retention of minority and first- generation students, as well as leading the launch of a philanthropic education curriculum. Kevin graduated with an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and earned a BBA (double major: Finance and Industrial Relations) from The University of Iowa. He resides with his wife and three children in Park City.

Andrea van Beuren

Ginny Jordan

Gretchen Sisson

Samantha Wright

Impact Producer

Samantha is the Director of Impact at Exposure Labs, leading efforts to leverage film to drive social change.

A social entrepreneur at heart, Samantha was previously VP of Global Programs at Girl Rising, where she led projects to catalyze the girls’ education movement. This included building the US domestic campaign, and architecting Girl Rising’s expansion to India. Other highlights include running TEDxBeijing; working with Lao farmers at the UN World Food Programme; advocating on behalf of political prisoners in Uganda; and starting inner-city literacy programs in Canada. Samantha holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford.

Davis Coombe

Davis Coombe is an award winning editor, producer, writer. Coombe edited IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA (Toronto Film Festival 2007, Winner AFI-Dallas, Independent Lens, BBC), THEY KILLED SISTER DOROTHY (Winner Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at SXSW 2008, HBO, shortlisted for an Academy Award), and shot, edited and produced THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF GOVERNOR BOOTH GARDNER which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2009 and broadcast on HBO.

In 2011 Coombe produced and edited SAVING FACE, which won the Oscar for Best Short Documentary in 2012. He also edited CHASING ICE, which premiered at Sundance in 2012 and was also shortlisted for an Academy award, and produced BAY OF ALL SAINTS, which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at SXSW in 2012. In 2013 he won two national Emmys for Editing and Best Documentary at the News and Documentary Emmys. Since then he co-wrote and edited both KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON (shortlisted for an Academy Award) and BEYOND THE BRICK: A LEGO BRICKUMENTARY which both premiere at the 2014 TriBeCa Film Festival. He co-produced, co-wrote and edited BEING EVEL which premiered at Sundance and broadcast on History Channel, and was an editor on ROLLING PAPERS (SXSW, Hot Docs 2015)

Mr. Coombe is currently producing and co-editing the documentary – animation hybrid LIYANA, producing and co-editing THE RESCUE LIST about child slavery in Ghana and has just finished cutting CASTING JONBENET and CHASING CORAL which will both premiere in the US Documentary competition at Sundance 2017.

Andrew Ackerman

Diver Master, Chief Safety Consultant

Andrew has filmed sharks, bears, and cage-fighters in his quest to study the more dangerous, yet misunderstood, creatures on the planet. He graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Film and Media Studies. He is a perpetual student (except for the things he is REALLY friggin’ good at) and firmly believes in not taking himself too seriously. He has been told he balances professionalism and levity perfectly, and that he is a joy to be around on and off set. His amazing girlfriend’s name is Andrea and he may be a bit of a narcissist.

Saul Simon MacWilliams

Composer

Saul Simon MacWilliams is a Los Angeles based film composer, producer, songwriter and music sound designer from York, Maine.

He has produced and written music with numerous indie and major label artists such as Chris Garneau, Joy Ike, Jenny Owen Youngs, Julia Nunes, A Great Big World, Sawyer Fredricks and Ingrid Michaelson, whom he also tours with as her multi-instrumentalist and music director.

As a film composer and music sound designer, Saul has worked closely and extensively with composer and producer Dan Romer on recent films including his oscar nominated feature ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’, ‘Digging for Fire’, ‘Finders Keepers’, ‘Mediterrania’ and as the music sound designer for the Netflix original ‘Beasts of No Nation’. Saul recently co-scored and music sound designed HBO’s Emmy-nominated documentary ‘Jim : The James Foley Story’ as well as Amazon’s ‘Gleason’, which took the 2016 Sundance Audience Award.

Richard Vevers

Cast

Richard Vevers is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Agency, an unconventional not-for-profit that uses the powerful combination of new technology, media, partnerships, and above all creativity to work at a meaningful speed and scale. Prior to joining the field of ocean conservation, Vevers worked for over ten years at some of the top London advertising agencies, and it is this background that allows him to bring a new approach to ocean conservation. He believes that the combination of creative thinking, effective communication, and strong global partnerships in business, science, and conservation are key to solving the threats facing the ocean.

This thinking has manifested in groundbreaking ocean science and conservation projects, such as the XL Catlin Seaview Survey, the most comprehensive survey of the world’s coral reefs ever conducted.Together with The Ocean Agency, Vevers pioneered underwater 360-degree photography technology, leading to the most viewed underwater photography in history as he brought Google Street View underwater. His latest initiative, 50 Reefs, is working toward a global plan to save coral reefs by identifying and protecting coral reefs that are least vulnerable to climate change, that also have the greatest capacity to repopulate other reefs over time.

Zackery Rago

Cast

Zack’s passion for coral reefs began in the Hawaiian Islands were he spent his childhood summers under the waves of the Pacific. His infatuation with coral led to a position in the marine aquarium industry for 4 years before bringing his passion to Teens4Oceans and View Into The Blue. He received a degree in Evolutionary Biology & Ecology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a talented reef aquarist and long time scuba diver, he is dedicated to communicating the story of coral through science and art.

Dr. John “Charlie” Veron

Trevor Mendelow

Trevor earned his Master’s Degree in Molecular Ecology and Marine Biology from Humboldt State University. After teaching at both secondary and university levels, Trevor founded Teens4Oceans, a nonprofit aimed at engaging, educating, and inspiring youths to care about the ocean and to recognize the importance of scientific research and experiential learning. Additionally, he is the President of View Into The Blue, a boulder-based technology company that manufactures self-cleaning underwater camera systems and other monitoring instruments. Trevor is exceptionally passionate about the ocean, education, science, and technology.

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Chief Scientific Advisor

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is the Director of the Global Change Institute (www.gci.uq.edu.au) and Professor of Marine Science at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Ove’s research focuses on the impacts of climate change for life in the ocean, and is one of the most cited authors in the scientific literature on climate change (> 25,000 citations from over 300 papers, books, and patents). Driven by a lifelong passion for science and discovery, Ove has traveled from Antarctica to the tropics to understand the rapid changes that are occurring in marine organisms and ecosystems. In concert with his science, Ove has been a dedicated communicator of the threats posed by ocean change, being among the first to raise the alarm about the serious threat of climate change to ocean systems in the early 1990s. As part of this, he has worked on numerous film projects with environmental film-makers such as Sir David Attenborough, Richard Smith, and Jeff Orlowski. As well, Ove has been the Coordinating Lead Author for the ‘Oceans’ chapter for the Fifth Assessment report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The fortunate recipient of several awards for his work, Ove has received a Eureka Prize, ARC Laureate, and Queensland Premier’s Fellowship, as well as the 2014 Prince Albert II Award for Climate Change and the 2016 Banksia International Award. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Science and lives in Brisbane, Australia with his marine biologist partner, Dr. Sophie Dove and their two ocean-inspired children, Fiona and Chris.

Dr. Mark Eakin

Chief Scientific Advisor

Dr. C. Mark Eakin has worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for over 20 years and directs Coral Reef Watch, a program that monitors coral reef ecosystems through satellite and in water observations. Dr. Eakin holds a Ph.D. from the University of Miami and publishes on coral reef ecology, especially the impact of climate change on coral reefs, coral bleaching, ocean acidification, and coral paleoclimatology. He co-chaired the US Coral Reef Task Force’s Climate Change Working Group, has testified before the US Congress on the impacts of climate change and was a contributing author on the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report.

Dr. Ruth Gates

Scientific Advisor

Ruth Gates is Director of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was awarded her PhD in 1990 from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California at Los Angeles before moving to Hawaii in 2003. At HIMB she leads a dynamic research group that focuses on coral reef health and on developing and advancing solutions that can improve the prognosis for coral reef. She has published well over a hundred scholarly works, has been recognized with
many prestigious awards and is the current President of the International Society for Reef Studies. She is a passionate advocate for coral reefs.

Dr. Joanie Kleypas

Dr. Justin Marshall

Scientific Advisor

Professor Justin Marshall is a Reef ecologist and runs CoralWatch, a not-for-profit citizen science program that aims to bring corals back from the brink.

Since his first reef encounter at the age of 6, Justing has been fascinated by their biology and in love with their beauty. He absolutely refuses to accept that humans are not capable of preserving this fantastic ecosystem into the future but knows we are currently not doing a very good job. One of the reasons for designing the CoralWatch system as it is and the reason for coordinating and helping to write our book is to engage the community in this process. The time for thought and discussion is over and the time for action and tough decisions is here. Dr. Marshall is very fortunate to be able to work on reefs every day and spend as much time as he can there.

Dr. James Porter

Scientific Advisor

James W. Porter is the Josiah Meigs Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia specializing in the biology and ecology of coral reefs. Dr. Porter has testified before Congress five times, most recently on the impact of global warming on coral reefs. In 2005 he received the prestigious Eugene P. Odum Award for environmental education from the Ecological Society of America and in 2006, he was elected President of Sigma Xi, a scientific honor society with more than 160,000 members worldwide, including all living Nobel Laureates.

Dr. Porter’s award winning photographs have appeared in Life Magazine and the New York Times. His work has been featured on ABC World News, NBC Nightly News, CNN News, and the CBS Evening News.

Dr. Phil Dustan

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Phillip Dustan, Professor of Biology, College of Charleston, is a marine ecologist specializing in the ecology, vitality, and conservation of coral reefs. Much of his work has centered on detecting change in reef communities to assess coral reef health. Additional interests include phytoplankton ecology, the oceanography of marine mammal habitats, and human influences on marine ecosystems.

Megha Agrawal

Megha believes in the power of sharing stories and building partnerships to inspire action. As Director of Strategic Partnerships at Exposure Labs, she is constantly in search of new, and meaningful collaborations with creators, cities, and corporations.

Previously, Megha was at the innovation firm, IDEO, where she helped purpose driven organizations grow through human-centered design. She holds a B.S. in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University. When she is not devouring all the latest articles, you can find Megha exploring trails or tracking down the best ice cream with her puppy in Austin, Texas.

Max Steinman

Max Steinman is the Campaigns Director at Exposure Labs, crafting content and experiences that capture the energy of our films and drive viewers to take action.

Max combines over ten years of brand strategy, research design and communications planning to build movements for government agencies, NGOs and socially-minded brands. Most recently, Max launched BreatheLife, a campaign led by the World Health Organization to raise awareness of the staggering health and climate impacts of air pollution and build a network of cities working to advance clean air solutions. Other notable campaigns include a national road tour supporting mail-back of the 2010 Census and HackHarassment, a movement to engage the tech community in combating online harassment.

Bre Graziano

Bre Graziano is Exposure Labs’ Community Engagement Manager, engaging our global communities of friends both on and offline.

Most recently, Bre managed digital communities of moms around the world, equipping them with the resources, community, and support needed to raise the next generation of global citizens. In addition, Bre is the Founder and Director of Fellow Magazine, and is currently working on another print issue that celebrates what being a good neighbor really looks like. Bre is passionate about the belief that by investing in our local and global communities, we can transform the environment around us for the better.

Meghan Welsch

Meghan Welsch is the Community Screenings Manager at Exposure Labs. She works with individuals, groups, and organizations to support educational screenings and large community events.

Meghan joins Exposure Labs with a background in film and technology. Her previous experience includes B-Side Entertainment + Festival Genius, the first of it’s kind in-home distribution platform, and scheduling app for film festival websites. Additionally, since it’s launch in 2012, she was an integral part of the development of Tugg, Inc., a crowdsourcing platform for movie screenings. She has managed and strategized with over 200 independent films, including Tugg’s largest releases Touch the Wall, Lazer Team, and Worship Night in America.

Savannah Miller

Savannah Miller is the Regional Campaigns Manager for Exposure Labs and is excited to return to her southern roots to manage Chasing Coral’s impact campaigns.

Savannah is an environmental advocate passionate about communicating climate science in a fresh and compelling manner. She is well-versed in both local and multinational policy, having held positions with both the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and the United Nations Development Programme. Recently, Savannah pivoted to the private sector, joining Resilience Collaborative LLC to align climate policy goals with private sector investment. Savannah holds a B.A. in Environmental Sciences and Creative Writing from Emory University, and a M.P.A. in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Columbia University’s Earth Institute and School of International and Public Affairs.

CHASING CORAL is a film directed by Jeff Orlowski and produced by Larissa Rhodes, as an Exposure Labs production. It was filmed over three years, with 500+ hours underwater, includes footage from over 30 countries, and was made with the support of over 500 people around the world.